Sep 04 2013
We’ll cover the on-going Congressional debate over a US military strike on Syria with analyst John Nichols. And, two Syrian exiles, Jay Abdo and Fadia Afashe, join us to discuss what Syrians feel about the push for war. Plus, we’ll examine Governor Jerry Brown’s Prison Realignment plan to ease overcrowding in California’s notorious prison system. …
Sep 04 2013
Multiple Pulitzer prize nominee Joyce Carol Oates’ 1990 play, Tone Clusters, comes to the open-air theater Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon this month.
Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with actors Alan Blumenfeld, Katherine James, and Jeff Wiesen on September 4, 2013.
Watch a video of the interview here: http://youtu.be/NJNxPsGSzeI
More details about the play are at www.theatricum.com.
Bipasha Shom recorded this interview.
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Sep 04 2013
Uprising’s Wednesday guest expert Rahul Mahajan, sociologist and news analyst and author of Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond, analyzes today’s news headlines:
A report released this morning highlights the horrors of “the other Guantanamo”: Bagram prison in Afghanistan. Forgotten by most Americans, the notorious US-run prison in Bagram, Afghanistan, was turned over to Afghan authorities but …
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Sep 04 2013
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday kicked off a Congressional debate over whether or not to grant President Obama the authority to use force in Syria. Senator Robert Menendez, chair of the committee, opened the hearing by stating his support for Obama’s action. He and his fellow Senators, questioned Secretary of State John Kerry, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, and Chairman …
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Sep 04 2013
Multiple Pulitzer prize nominee Joyce Carol Oates’ 1990 play, Tone Clusters, comes to the open-air theater Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon this month.
The two-person play, which is based on the story of a man convicted for murdering a 13 year old girl, is directed by Mike Peebler, and stars Alan Blumenfeld and Katherine James. Tone Clusters, according to Peebler, …
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Sep 04 2013
In a bold move designed to send a message to the nation’s largest private employer, Walmart employees are staging another protest tomorrow to protest the company’s unfair labor practices.*
The group, OUR Walmart has organized Walmart Associates in fifteen different cities, including here in Los Angeles, to protest illegal firings of Walmart employees who participated in a strike in June and …
Sep 04 2013
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” — Malcolm X
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Sep 03 2013
Uprising’s Tuesday guest expert Robert Jensen, author and Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today’s news headlines:
A new report shows collusion between AT&T and the DEA on phone records dating as far back as 1987. The New York Times reported this weekend on the so-called Hemisphere Project, that involves local and federal drug enforcement …
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Sep 03 2013
The US Intelligence Community’s budget has doubled since the September 11th 2001 attacks according to budget documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to the Washington Post. The documents have made public the most detailed portrait ever available of how more than $52 billion of tax payers money is being spent.
Even Congress has not been authorized to examine how …
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Sep 03 2013
Calling the Syrian fatal gas attack in Ghouta last week, the “worst chemical weapons attack of the 21st century,” and “an assault on human dignity,” President Obama in a statement on Friday said he has decided to take military action against the Syrian government.
He added that he has also decided to ask Congress to debate and vote on authorizing …
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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Is Coming To Los Angeles!
Come and hear Varoufakis speak in person on Saturday April 23rd in Pasadena, California, at his ONLY Los Angeles-area event!
WHEN: Saturday April 23rd, Reception at 12 noon, Event at 1 pm
WHERE: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
Yanis Varoufakis of the Syriza Party took the European political establishment by storm a year ago when he was appointed Finance Minister of Greece by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Varoufakis is an ……
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